Developmental sex differences in amino acid neurotransmitter levels in hypothalamic and limbic areas of rat brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1471-1482

  Davis, A M ^a   Ward, S C ^a   Selmanoff, M ^a   Herbison, A E ^b   McCarthy, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; GABA; Glutamate; Sexual differentiation; Testosterone; Ventromedial nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

AGING; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASPARTIC ACID; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0032927061     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00511-9     Document Type: Article

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